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To: CodeToad

Can you provide any original sources (i.e., not anti-Rand opinion pieces) that support your argument that she was an AA feminist? Otherwise, I would say you are way off base.

Somehow, I don’t see Dagny Taggart or Dominique Francon needing AA to succeed.

In fact, she over-glamorized men as hero figures, to the detriment of her own marriage.


21 posted on 03/29/2009 2:05:40 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: neocon1984

Read the book: Ayn Rand Answers, edited by Robert Mayhew (2005).

She states clearly that she believes in feminism and believes in goverment interference to enforce it.


23 posted on 03/29/2009 2:07:23 PM PDT by CodeToad (Anyone wanting the government to take over medical care should stand in line at the post office)
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To: neocon1984

I believe you are right, in the modern sense. She would be appalled at the modern feminist movement but I believe she wasn’t so appalled at it’s beginning so much as intellectual equality and the right to work as back in her day that was a struggle.


25 posted on 03/29/2009 2:09:28 PM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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To: neocon1984

“In fact, she over-glamorized men as hero figures, to the detriment of her own marriage.”

Yes, but she also stated she believes women should not look up to men or hold them as heros. I think you are confusing her use of men as heros as a belief that all women should hold men as heros.


28 posted on 03/29/2009 2:12:05 PM PDT by CodeToad (Anyone wanting the government to take over medical care should stand in line at the post office)
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